My Interum Art Peice Project!

I cut it out with the laser cutter thing! It was for the self portrait project, and I decided I wanted to do a more metephorical selfportrait to represent who I was, am, and see myself becoming. They are also based on one of my characters from the story my Senior Project will take place in! Also made a drawn version as an addition for the art interum!

These are the pictures I took of the concept art and the art peices while they were still work in progress. For the laser printer specificly, I wanted to do something in a similar vein to my previous makerspace project (post coming soon) but smaller and more focused on one character. Oasis(or maybe Sandune?) were a representation of certian aspects of my experience in life. Oasis is a fusion of two. These two are rather diffrent from me in quite a few ways and experiences. In a few key ways though, these characters could be seen as reflections of myself. That is to say, my past, my percieved potential future, and the present self.

These are the finished peices. The title for the first peice, “Is it ok for me to be here?” is a question I have asked many times over the years ive been alive, for various diffrent reasons and purposes. I think that the very presence of Oasis in this peice is a direct answer, that it is ok for them to be there as themself, with all that comes with that. The drawn peice, “I am me” is a peice about self-acceptance. I think I am still working on that, but I am closer than I was before. When I do come to terms with myself, I hope to be free as a bird. However, I suspect that that will not be happening for many more years.

When Oasis finds themselves from the two for the first time, they dont get to take comfort in themself before having to face the might of the Machine. The machine needs people and their energy to feed on. If people had other options, the machine as it is now would die. And so, it fought to steal, kill, and destroy in the name of power, all for the sake of sustaining itself. I still dont fully know what happens next for Alex, Robin, and Oasis yet, but there is still plenty of hope. They will not be alone in their struggles, as there are people out there who care. I can hope as much for myself. I finaly am starting to have hope, acceptance, and understanding to match the fear, anger, and confusion. That is what Oasis represents to me as of right now. (Hope I can do them justice in the story I am writing!)

Hope you enjoyed!